Authors:Ulrich Beck, Anthony Giddens, Scott Lash,
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Keywords: modern, social, order, aesthetics, tradition, modernization, politics, reflexive
Number of Pages: 228
Published: 1994-10-01
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0804724725
ISBN-13: 9780804724722

Three prominent social thinkers discuss how modern society is undercutting its formations of class, stratum, occupations, sex roles, the nuclear family, and more. Reflexive modernization, or the way one kind of modernization undercuts and changes another, has wide ranging implications for contemporary social and cultural theory, as this provocative book demonstrates.

Author: David Pong
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: chinese, studies, history, literature, institutions, cambridge, century, chen, pao, china, modernization, nineteenth, shen
Number of Pages: 395
Published: 2003-02-13
List price: $69.00
ISBN-10: 0521531268
ISBN-13: 9780521531269

The Opium Wars ushered in an era of intensive Western imperialism in China, at a time when the Ch’ing dynasty was already in decline, forcing a small number of Chinese officials to come to the realisation that China must protect itself by adopting the same military technology that had brought it national humiliation. Shen Pao-chen was one such official. Abandoning the comfort of his successful career, Shen devoted his life to building China’s first modern naval dockyard and academy. His successes and failures shed new light on the story of China’s efforts at modernization - a

Author: Anthony H. Cordesman and Martin Kleiber
Publisher: Center for Strategic and International Studies
Keywords: csis, significant, issues, series, capabilities, strategic, military, modernization, force, development, chinese
Number of Pages: 226
Published: 2007-04-09
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 089206496X
ISBN-13: 9780892064960

Changing political relationships and a substantial increase in resources have prompted the Chinese leadership to accelerate the modernization of its armed forces. Observers, not least the United States, have wondered what objectives China’s military buildup is meant to serve. The Chinese government’s extreme secrecy about military budgets, force training, and weapon system procurement leaves considerable room for speculation. Perhaps naturally, China is believed to be preparing capacities for a possible conflict with Taiwan, which might or might not involve the United States. But o

Author: Robert D. Murphy
Publisher: Diane Pub Co
Keywords: aircraft, average, reduce, modernization, tactical, plans
Number of Pages: 75
Published: 2004-06
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 0756713234
ISBN-13: 9780756713232

Authors:Samuel C. Chu, Samuel C. Chu, Kwang-Ching Liu,
Publisher: M.E. Sharpe
Keywords: modernization, china, chang, hung
Number of Pages: 308
Published: 1997-04
List price: $47.95
ISBN-10: 1563244586
ISBN-13: 9781563244582

This is a study of Li Hung-chang which represents a collaboration of Li experts among Chinese and Western scholars. The biography examines the beginnings of China’s modernisation; the Confucian as a patriot and pragmatist; his formative years, 1823-1866; and other aspects of his life.

Author: Glenn Kent
Publisher: RAND Corporation
Keywords: air, force, report, project, states, modernization, united, framework
Number of Pages: 48
Published: 2003-09-25
List price: $18.00
ISBN-10: 0833034278
ISBN-13: 9780833034274

The report lays out a framework for modernizing that the Air Force can use to develop new operational concepts in the context of joint-service requirements, to organize analyses for assessing capabilities, and to effectively advocate Air Force programs to "deciders’ in the Office of the Secretary of Defense and Congress. The work builds on earlier work on a strategies-to-tasks framework, concept development, and up-front planning.

Author: Leslie Alan Glick
Publisher: Kluwer Law International
Keywords: customs, law, modernization, trade, guide, states, united
Number of Pages: 504
Published: 2008-03-04
List price: $257.00
ISBN-10: 9041127046
ISBN-13: 9789041127044

With the intensified focus on antiterrorism in US trade policy-and the transfer of the Customs Service from the US Treasury Department to the Department of Homeland Security as the Bureau of Customs and Border Protection-traditional ways of thinking about customs and trade law are now out of date. In light of the war on terrorism and the emphasis on border security, businesses engaged in the crossborder exchange of goods face a multitude of new laws and initiatives-in addition to the traditional array of responsibilities required by the US Bureau of Customs and Border Protection and Immigrati